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Night Dancer

Mythical Piper of the Native American Southwest

by Marcia Vaughan ยท 2002

ISBN: 0439352487 9780439352482

Category: Juvenile Fiction / Animals / General

Page count: 32

A lyrical picture book poem featuring Kokopelli, the beloved humpbacked southwestern Native American god.<br> <br> This lyrical poem follows Kokopelli, the god of dance and music, as he travels through the moonlit desert playing his flute and inviting the desert animals to join in his dance. Coyote, Snake, Tortoise, Javelina, Jackrabbit, Tarantula, and the sleeping children of a nearby pueblo accept his invitation, and joyously follow this pied piper of the Rio Grande in his midnight dance.